Each week at GaySocialites.com, we recognize someone who just couldn't get it together. We call it our Hot Mess of the Week. Not only is it a cheap plug for our Sunday night party at Porky's in NYC titled "Hot Mess," but it is also a way to share in someone else's unfortunate existence.
The newest Hot Mess of the Week is outed gay Senator Larry Craig. On Monday we got wind that Senator Craig was cruising the men's room at a Minneapolis airport. The now outed old Republican leader pleaded guilty and took some fines and a slap on the wrist.
When the news went public, Craig said he regretted his decision to plead guilty. On Friday evening, GaySocialites.com broke the story that Senator Craig would resign from his position in the Senate as a representative for Idaho. On Saturday, he did just that and stepped down.
Larry's unfortunate week has also pulled former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey and his ex-wife Dina Matos McGreevey back into the spotlight. Both remembering their respective role in the outing of a politician and the woman who briefly stands behind him.
"I was watching his wife the other day standing next to him, and I thought, 'Oh my gosh, that was me three years ago. Now here we go again,'" Matos McGreevey said. "She's a victim of the choices he's made."
As Dina was flashing back and feeling pity for Suzanne Craig, Jim McGreevey reminisced of his days of toilet plunging for gay sex:
"My gut wrenched when I read of Sen. Larry Craig's bathroom arrest. I remembered my own late-night encounter with the law at a Garden State Parkway rest stop following a political dinner in north Jersey. I pulled into the rest stop, parked my car, flashed my headlights, which was "the signal," and waited. Glancing in my rearview mirror, I saw a state trooper approaching. I desperately tried to convince the trooper of my innocence, showing him my former prosecutor's badge, a gift from the office when I left. The trooper radioed his office and returned. "I never want to see you here again," he said. I survived for another day."
Ole Larry hasn't come out of the closet yet. He still says he isn't gay and wasn't looking for a hook-up in the men's room.
Meanwhile, his career is over and I wouldn't be surprised if his marriage is soon too! That's why Gay Senator Larry Craig is our Hot Mess of the Week.
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